DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. Geode vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. Geode vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

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Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ehcache.org

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Google

Spotify

Initial release

2016

2009

2002

2010

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes, on a single node

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights per client and object definable

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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